The Modern Fairytale Of Our Wardrobe

Vocal fashion critic and entrepreneur Kanika Bhatia writes, from breathing room for your breasts, ankle shaming, fat shaming, and the over emphasis on boundaries pertaining to trims on our clothing, its been quite a journey our ladies have battled.

- Kanika Bhatia

Anticlimax- there is no Prince Charming!

It was a time of knighthood, it was a time of slavery. It was a time of obedience, it was a time of silent defiance. It was a time of boundaries and it was a time of free reign. Dickens twists and turns in his grave, whilst you wonder what is this about. Do me a favour, re-read the statement above in context of fashion for women since centuries. A large part of our battle over centuries involved around basic rights like voting, freedom to move without a chaperone, public gatherings and believe it or not clothing of our choice.

Today we talk of fashion evolving for women. Having recently celebrated Independence Day of Hungary and India, I couldn’t help but notice how the idea of independence is so important for us all and how most of us don’t even know about the struggles behind each kind of freedom we enjoy today. We wouldn’t be discussing in depth the burkhas and hijabs still a matter of debate and choice in a lot of nationalities, though undoubtedly demanding a huge call out. However, some of the shockers of the fashion world we freely enjoy today and the struggle it took to get here.

Corsets and bustiers